History Main / TheGirlWhoFitsThisSlipper

* ''Franchise/PrettyCure'':

Compare IdentificationByDentalRecords and GlassSlipper.

* Music/{{Nirvana}}'s "[[Music/{{Bleach}} About a Girl]]":

* ''LightNovel/OokamiSan'' : The first episode features a tennis player contemplating retirement trying to find the girl who fits the sneaker that kicked him in the face. [[spoiler:He does, and is revealed to be a bit of a pervert and only did so to determine that said girl had great control of her body to do so. They end up going out.]]
* Averted in ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'', after the main characters come back from Cinderella's world, Milk (a bunny fairy mascot) jumps with her whole body in the shoe, preventing that Nozomi, who was Cinderella in that world, could try to wear the glass shoe, despite it's actually Nozomi's. Of course, Nozomi who wants to marry her prince (Coco) isn't amused.
** Despite that the main characters know the story, Nozomi, being a CuteClumsyGirl, really lost her shoe by tripping downstairs.

* The main plot of ''[[LightNovel/HensukiAreYouWillingToFallInLoveWithAPervertAsLongAsShesACutie Hensuki]]'' is main character Keiki Kiryū trying to find which of his club's female members is the one that left an anonymous love letter in his locker... only that the "slipper" they left behind is actually a pair of panties. This, naturally, makes it a lot harder to find who did it - not helped by the fact that all the girls are hardcore perverts who are interested in him and want him to participate in their fetishes.

!!Examples

* Disney's ''{{WesternAnimation/Cinderella}}'', the TropeNamer, acknowledges the potential absurdity of the trope: the Grand Duke protests that the slipper could fit any number of girls, to which the King replies that he doesn't care, he's holding the prince to his ExactWords in order to ensure he gets married. The trope is also ultimately subverted, as Cinderella doesn't even manage to try on the slipper before it's smashed... but she is able to produce its match, which serves as even better proof of her identity. This references an often-omitted part of the Charles Perrault fairy tale, in which after Cinderella fits her foot into the slipper, she pulls out the match and puts it on her other foot.

* In ''{{Series/MASH}}'', BJ is accused by a general of throwing a party in the hotel he was staying at, which leads to the general being caught in an embarrassing situation; but BJ insists he was back at camp at the time, and that the real culprit was likely a friend of his who is a notorious practical joker. The general's main piece of evidence is a hat left in the hotel room, and has BJ put it on. It is obviously ''not'' BJ's hat.

* ''Series/TheElectricCompany1971'' spoofed the original scene in a sketch about suffixes; Cinderella's stepsister claims that she has a small foot, while the WickedStepmother boasts that she has a small''er'' one, and Cinderella declares her foot as the small''est''. After the prince's page finds the slipper to fit Cinderella, [[spoiler:they hand her a traffic ticket, with the prince explaining, "Your pumpkin is illegally parked outside the palace."]]

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* Music/{{Nirvana}}'s [[Music/{{Bleach}} "About A Girl"]]:
-->"I do...think you fit this shoe"

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* One of Jon's dates in ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' ran out of the restaurant at midnight, leaving behind one of her ''steel-toed work boots''. Garfield suggests going to the foundry to see who it fits.
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* Played with in ''WebComic/GirlGenius'' in the Cinderella side story [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090107 here]]. Tarvek proposes using a lost shoe to find Cinderella/Agatha. Gil points out the obvious problems with this leading Tarvek to propose increasingly detailed filters (unmarried, age, hair color etc.) to narrow it down culminating with him pulling out a portrait of her. As Gil then points out if they have a portrait they [[StatingTheSimpleSolution don't actually need the shoe]].

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* The main plot of ''[[LightNovel/HensukiAreYouWillingToFallInLoveWithAPervertAsLongAsShesACutie Hensuki]]'' is main character Keiki Kiryū trying to find which of his club's female members is the one that left an anonymous love letter in his locker... only that the "slipper" is actually a pair of panties. This, naturally, makes it a lot harder to find who did it - not helped by the fact that all the girls are hardcore perverts who are interested in him and want him to participate in their fetishes.

* Used as contributing evidence in ''Film/InglouriousBasterds''.

* ''Discworld/WitchesAbroad'' utterly dismantles this trope. Lilith is trying to {{invoke|d trope}} the trope for the Cinderella story she's masterminding, and Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax point out that a lot of feet can fit a shoe that size with enough socks... and even if you don't have socks, there must be a ''lot'' of [[SuspectIsHatless people with that shoe size in the city]]. The only way to use it as a test is if you know who dropped it in the first place....

[[quoteright:275:[[{{Disney/Cinderella}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cinderella_glass_slipper_fitting.jpg]]]]

-->-- ''{{Disney/Cinderella}}''

* Disney's ''{{Disney/Cinderella}}'', the TropeNamer, acknowledges the potential absurdity of the trope: the Grand Duke protests that the slipper could fit any number of girls, to which the King replies that he doesn't care, he's holding the prince to his ExactWords in order to ensure he gets married. The trope is also ultimately subverted, as Cinderella doesn't even manage to try on the slipper before it's smashed... but she is able to produce its match, which serves as even better proof of her identity. This references an often-omitted part of the Charles Perrault fairy tale, in which after Cinderella fits her foot into the slipper, she pulls out the match and puts it on her other foot.
* In ''Disney/CinderellaIIIATwistInTime'', Prince Charming ''himself'' acknowledges the flimsiness of a shoe size as proof of one's identity, but also points out they don't have any other means of finding Cinderella. His and the king's doubts about this plan become confirmed when Lady Tremaine uses [[ItMakesSenseInContext a stolen magic wand]] to make the glass slipper fit stepsister Anastasia instead.

* In the retelling of [[{{Disney/Cinderella}} film]] above in ''Videogame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'', Aqua is present during the scene where the Grand Duke brings the slipper to the Tremaines' home and actually buys time for Cinerella to arrive by asking the Duke if she can try on the slipper since she ''is'' a young woman [[VagueAge roughly of the same age]] as the girl that attended the ball. After that it plays out much the same as the original movie plot... except for the obligatory BossBattle afterward.

* Combined with OnlyTheChosenMayWield in''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'', where the Hero cannot wear the Zenithian gear [[spoiler:but his son can.]]

[[caption-width-right:275:[-Looks like you have your future {{Princess}}.-] ]]

* Played with in ''WebComic/GirlGenius'' in the Cinderella side story [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090107 here]]. Tarvek proposes using a lost shot to find Cinderella/Agatha. Gil points out the obvious problems with this leading Tarvek to propose increasingly detailed filters (unmarried, age, hair color etc.) to narrow it down culminating with him pulling out a portrait of her. As Gil then points out if they have a portrait they [[StatingTheSimpleSolution don't actually need the shoe]].

* {{Defied}} in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. Near the end of "The Best Night Ever", the ponies are running away from the chaos they accidentally caused at the Grand Galloping Gala. Rarity drops a glass slipper, and Pinkie Pie tells her, "Now your prince is sure to find you!" Rarity, who has no interest in meeting [[PrinceCharmless Prince Blue Blood]] ever again, screams and crushes the slipper into shards.

* An... interesting variation occurred in ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' once: When Rocko accidentally mooned a newspaper camera during a movie premiere, a fashion designer saw the picture, and decided the owner of the posterior would make a perfect underwear model. To find the potential model, all of the men in O-Town took turns sitting in an imprint made of Rocko's bottom in the cement that night.

* Played with in, of all places, ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', where [[FishPeople Zora]] females traditionally craft a set of armour for the one they wish to marry. The [[FantasticRacism prejudiced and arrogant]] elder, Muzu, refuses to accept the help of a Hylian like Link, or believe that he could've been important to his long dead, beloved student Mipha, and withholds his help. He has to accept the truth, though, when it's revealed the Zora armour Mipha made is a [[WackyMarriageProposal precise fit for Link and was clearly made for him]].

* ''Series/TheElectricCompany1971'' spoofed the original scene in a sketch about suffixes; Cinderella's stepsister claims that she has a small foot, while the WickedStepmother boasts that she has a small''er'' one, and Cinderella declares her foot as the small'''est'''. After the prince's page finds the slipper to fit Cinderella, [[spoiler:they hand her a traffic ticket, with the prince explaining, "Your pumpkin is illegally parked outside the palace."]]

* ''MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': Several episodes had [[ThoseTwoGuys Bulk and Skull]] trying to learn the identities of the Power Rangers. In one episode, Bulk took inspiration from "Literature/{{Cinderella}}" and decided to make imprints of the Rangers' boots. An opportunity presented itself when Lord Zedd's MonsterOfTheWeek in that episode had the Rangers battle illusions of past monsters at the beach. At the end of the episode, Bulk and Skull went to Ernie's juice bar with a cement block with imprints of all five Rangers' boots. One of the rangers turned the music on so the musicians would make Bulk drop the block. While he managed to keep holding the block despite the dancers, he was caught unprepared for Skull's congratulatory tap on the back.